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Constipated Monkey Smegma
...Presents...
Jim Guthrie-A Thousand Songs
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│ RiPPER.: djn DATE RiPPED..: 11-02-2004 │
│ LAbEL..: Three Gut Records DATE RELEaSEd: 00-00-2003 │
│ ENCOdER: LAME RELEaSE SiZE.: 105,8 MB │
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│ this album might seem a little weird at first but stick │
│ with it. it's kinda like a white version of cody │
│ chestnutt's "the headphone masterpiece," with lo-fi │
│ production, random electronic programming, and the "just a │
│ guy and his guitar" feeling. │
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│ from pitchforkmedia.com: │
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│ Jim Guthrie │
│ A Thousand Songs │
│ [Three Gut; 1999, r. 2003] │
│ Rating: 7.5 │
│ A Thousand Songs' "Introduction" finds Jim Guthrie humbly │
│ warbling "I think I'll write/ A thousand songs today" over │
│ a handful of thick, grainy strums; six seconds in, Guthrie │
│ tumbles off the edge of his kitchen chair, dragging his │
│ entire patchy, four-track setup down with him in a │
│ dissonant crunch. Introduction complete. │
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│ Unsurprisingly, Royal City's Jim Guthrie doesn't exactly │
│ fulfill his bombastic (if ill-fated) prophecy, but his │
│ solo Three Gut debut does boast twenty-four tracks of │
│ scrappy, lo-fi maneuvering, littered with all the bells, │
│ whistles, and pings expected of an artist who records his │
│ music in an apartment crammed with unnamed noisemakers. A │
│ Thousand Songs is seventy-four minutes of artfully pieced │
│ together song collages; to the uninitiated, the prospect │
│ of wading through it may sound roll-your-eyes exhausting, │
│ but, happily, the compilation makes a charming, │
│ melodically competent record, peppered with bizarre │
│ moments of cut and paste genius. │
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│ Guthrie's sparse, handmade works are lucid enough to save │
│ themselves from tedium-- the time-tested pitfall of │
│ recording shit without a band, producer, or studio-- and │
│ he shows an impressive sense of balance and structure, │
│ toying with the tension of pairing raw, un-tempered sounds │
│ with proficient songwriting. Sometimes blissfully short │
│ (could anyone realistically endure more than twenty-five │
│ seconds of Guthrie and friends hollering "Rama-lama-ding │
│ dong!" and giggling, or placidly tolerate additional │
│ samples of someone cawing "Pots and pans!" over-- hey, │
│ brilliant match-up here-- the crashing of cookware?), │
│ Guthrie's samples are usually perfectly timed for listener │
│ appreciation, and coalesce like a poppier, less DJ-minded │
│ Fog. Remarkably, A Thousand Songs requires far less │
│ patience than might be (rightfully) anticipated from an │
│ artist who currently employs a Playstation as a band │
│ member/co- songwriter: Guthrie's compositions may be full │
│ of noises and unidentifiable hiss, but they're still │
│ solidly written songs. │
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│ Snippets of found sound and cuts from old records (a quick │
│ clip from the Statler Brothers' "Flowers on the Wall," a │
│ broke-down cover of Tortoise's "Gamera") mingle peaceably │
│ with guitar, drums, keyboards, Playstation-synths, and │
│ Guthrie's unadorned vocals. "The Fantabulous" opens with │
│ rich, acoustic plucks, Guthrie's modest guitar melody │
│ stumbling into a light drum and cymbal crash and then │
│ crawling out, rolling through twitchy beats and cycling │
│ back through again, building, breaking down, and evening │
│ out. "Who Needs What" is a sweet, strikingly sincere │
│ acoustic plea, with Guthrie quietly imploring "Don't back │
│ down on me now/ I need this/ Go get drunk on me now/ You │
│ need this." It's a welcome bit of quiet sentimentality │
│ before "Who Needs What" sees Guthrie toss his heart back │
│ down, return to form, and holler, "Shit yeah, I can │
│ dance!" │
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│ Despite being originally released by Three Gut in 1999-- │
│ making Guthrie a semi-celebrity with resourceful Canadian │
│ critics in 2000-- and earning a re-release by the label in │
│ 2002, A Thousand Songs is terrifically hard to track down │
│ stateside, unless you frequent Three Gut's website (the │
│ label is hoping for U.S. distribution this fall). │
│ Guthrie's scrap-heap gig has already been brazenly │
│ co-opted by hundreds of crafty, resourceful kids with │
│ acoustic guitars and shitty microphones (who probably │
│ learned their tricks from a well-worn, heavily-stickered │
│ tape of Stereopathetic Soul Manure) and unfortunately, │
│ much of what's so unique about this release will, in all │
│ likelihood, seem pretty tired by the time it finds its way │
│ into the listening booth of your local indie retailer. But │
│ Guthrie's work is more honest and artful than much of the │
│ over-posed gimmickry-as-music of his peers, and even now, │
│ nearly four years after its initial release, A Thousand │
│ Songs deserves some attention. │
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│ │ # │ Track Name │ Time │ │
│ ├────┼───────────-──────────────────────────────┼───────┤ │
│ │ 01 │ Introduction │ 00:07 │ │
│ │ 02 │ Satana's Theme │ 02:26 │ │
│ │ 03 │ Jigsaw Muzzle │ 02:57 │ │
│ │ 04 │ Not Yalk's Requiem │ 02:28 │ │
│ │ 05 │ Mr. Work Stubborn │ 01:45 │ │
│ │ 06 │ I Love Broken Shoes │ 02:20 │ │
│ │ 07 │ The Fantabulous World of Jimmy 3-Guts │ 03:47 │ │
│ │ 08 │ Who Needs What │ 02:40 │ │
│ │ 09 │ I Don't Wanna Be A Rockstar │ 02:25 │ │
│ │ 10 │ Dirty Fingernail Dreams │ 02:17 │ │
│ │ 11 │ Thousand Songs │ 02:01 │ │
│ │ 12 │ Audio Pepsi │ 02:16 │ │
│ │ 13 │ Trust │ 04:49 │ │
│ │ 14 │ Sexy Drummer │ 06:25 │ │
│ │ 15 │ Not A Word │ 02:17 │ │
│ │ 16 │ Invisible Gem │ 02:16 │ │
│ │ 17 │ Wear in the World │ 01:44 │ │
│ │ 18 │ Shape of Things │ 02:55 │ │
│ │ 19 │ Let's Get in A Fight │ 00:46 │ │
│ │ 20 │ Focus on Floor Care │ 05:23 │ │
│ │ 21 │ Gamera │ 03:53 │ │
│ │ 22 │ Repression's Waltz │ 04:25 │ │
│ │ 23 │ Roads and Paper Routes │ 05:18 │ │
│ │ 24 │ And We Got Older │ 06:09 │ │
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│ │ │ Total │ 73:49 min │
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